A Stern Design Effort Is A Long Design Effort

Oh my stars, bet nobody saw an update to this coming!

A Stern Chase has long sat on the backburner as something that needed more work to be as good as I wanted it to be, and with there being another Breathless Jam going on now was as good a time as any. So, what changed, what still needs to be done, and what is getting spun off?

• The local equivalent of the Stunt mechanic from the base Breathless SRD has been created. Gambits are for when a ship leaves standard protocols, tactics, and notions behind, allowing the ship to roll a d12 on its next check instead of a Department rating. The Supply mechanic can further boost this, allowing for 2d12 to be rolled. A ship can only attempt one Gambit before needing to Rest, Repair, and Refit.
• The array for a ship's Departments is now 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, and 1d10, to leave the d12 as a unique die for Gambits.
• Enemy Presence no longer increases the Difficulty Rating of checks. Things were hard enough.
• There's some cover art by Misael “Gio” Manning! All hail the creator of excellent sci-fi stock art!

So, what are some things I still feel like I need to do before this game is finale.pdf finished?

• A few additional sample missions (hey, by the way, Azukail went and made some of their own!)
• Some extra language about mission and campaign design, and advice for FLEETCOM.

What I'm not going to be doing is including a full example campaign. That sort of thing, instead, is going to be spun off into a series of Stern Chase settings and campaign seeds. That's right, this game is going to have a line! 

I've got 16 days and a bit of change from posting this update  left in that Breathless Jam 2, so that's my deadline to complete the above bullet points and at least have one jam-level campaign/setting published, so keep an eye out (and let me know what you think of the base game, whether you're returning or are taking your first real look! 

See you on the chase! - Seamus